by Deborah Ng
Thanks to Pete who sent this ad to me. In his email he said words escape him. Me too.
Seinfeld Television Show Transcriber (Brooklyn)
Hello,I am a deaf 28 year old male on disability. Everyone keeps telling me that Seinfeld is a very funny show but due to my hearing loss I cannot watch the episodes and fully understand what is going on. This position is a full-time position to type out a written transcript of these shows for me so I can read along while I watch the show on TV. Once we are done with Seinfeld, we can move to All In The Family, Brady Bunch, Family Ties and much more. I am starting pay at $30/hr for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. My transcriber should be female, ages 20-28, 5’7″ or taller, blonde hair, blue eyes.
Please email if interested. SERIOUS INQUERIES ONLY!!
- Location: Brooklyn
- Compensation: $30/hr
- OK to highlight this job opening for persons with disabilities
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
So here I am feeling bad for this hearing impaired man who loves him some Seinfeld and clearly has no idea how to read lips or use his closed caption device. Even the hard of hearing deserves to escape with Archie Bunker or Cindy Brady, don’t they? And really, if hiring a full time transcriber so he can read along with his favorites does it for him, and he can afford to pay this person, who am I to ridicule?
Oh wait a second.
He’s looking for a specific type of transcriber. So now I’m thinking maybe he’s not so much looking to learn the lyrics to “Sunshine Day.”
I think he’s just looking to master his domain.
if i were blonde, i could be watching a lot of seinfeld for $30/hr..
Damn, I could use $30/hour to pretend to write while really just using a close captioning system. Sadly I’m not quite…uh….feminine. Damn it all. heh
I was about to get mad at you for a minute, Deb. I still have a few more weeks of being 28…. Then I saw he’s only looking for TALL blondes…. Pfft.
By the way (just in case anyone here is playing trivial pursuit for the hearing impaired or anything), I can testify that these shows aren’t captioned on the dvds. But, um, yeah.
How can you read along from a paper and still see the TV screen. I would apply if I was younger, but first he would have to explain to me how he would plan to do that.
I was compassionately hooked… until the last sentence. Then I just roared. Oh, my!
Crap. I qualify except I’m too old. OOps, I mean, that ad is revolting! *ahem*
I’m totally qualified! Uh… do they make 8″ stilettos? And due to a fight with a bleaching kit I’m more yellow than blonde… ah nuts.
Crap, I’m perfect for the “job” except I’m too short!
$30 an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week… that’s $240 a day. That comes out to $1200 a week, or $4800 a month. Okay, and this guy is on disability? That’s not even touching the sexist load of … well you know LOL. I am starting to think I am in the wrong profession!! (cough)
Boy that dude watches a lot of TV. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? Say what?
Ok, so I’m tall, female, 25, and live 45 minutes from Brooklyn. I’m not blond, but darnnit, I can get some hair dye. Nevermind the fact that I already have most episodes of Seinfeld memorized….
I was thisclose to getting offended since my daughter is deaf and I couldn’t figure out why anyone would laugh at a hearing impaired person. And then I got to the end… wow. Words escape me, too!
Misty, I am hard of hearing and have deaf folks in my family, so I thought the same thing. Then I got to that last part. (I’m hoping the guy was kidding, but yeah wow.)
I wasn’t sure if I should post this ad or not because I know several members of this community are hard of hearing, but then I figured after you read the last line of the ad you’d get it.
I would wear a Wookie costume for that job. Except that it seems he is wanting someone with a slightly different look. That’s too bad. Maybe a tall, blonde chick could just turn on the subtitle function on his DVD player.
I know a few drag queens who fit this ad…mostly.
Here’s a website with all the transcribed Seinfeld scripts in one handy place — and all had for free with about 10 seconds of googling!
Oops — link: http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/
Well, the first line of this suggests something shifty to me, since one of my major clients is a subtitling company, and there are SDH (Some Difficulty Hearing) versions of Seinfeld out there already. I’m pretty sure there’s All in the Family out there too.
Hilarious, Deb! I’m so glad you shared! (Even if I’m brunette, short, and too old for this dude’s reqs.)
This is too hilarious!
Haha, I think it’s a joke…